{"id":42527,"date":"2018-03-24T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42527"},"modified":"2018-03-04T08:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T13:49:48","slug":"qotd-joining-the-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/qotd-joining-the-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Joining &#8220;The Firm&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Personally I think Meghan Markle would be a catastrophic addition to The Firm if she does not understand why it is a terrible idea for the Royals to get political. Do that and they stop being symbols (essentially endearing living flags whose job is to wave strangely and act as a navigational datum for flypasts) and become legitimate political targets. There is no surer route to a republic and I would regret that (as I do not share <em>Spiked<\/em>\u2019s democracy fetish) but not necessarily oppose it if the House of Windsor does indeed go full retard.<\/p>\n<p>Perry de Havilland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2018\/03\/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1014\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Samizdata quote of the day&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2018-03-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally I think Meghan Markle would be a catastrophic addition to The Firm if she does not understand why it is a terrible idea for the Royals to get political. Do that and they stop being symbols (essentially endearing living flags whose job is to wave strangely and act as a navigational datum for flypasts) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,28,53,41],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-42527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42528,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42527\/revisions\/42528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}